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Engendering Transnational Ties

Airs at: Mon, 07/26/2010 at 12:00am
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Laurie Mercier talks with Luz María Gordillo about her new book, "Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration: Engendering Transnational Ties." Luz Maria looked at migratory patterns between western Mexico and Detroit, and how men and women differently participate in... Read more

British Punk Under Thatcher

Airs at: Mon, 07/26/2010 at 12:00am
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Denise Morris talks with our radical musicologist, Brad Duncan, about British music in the late '70s. Brad explains the way punk, dance and two-tone music helped organize a new generation of young British radicals.   Update: A missing portion of Brad's commentary on The Sp... Read more

July 19 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
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Hosted by Frann Michel (pictured here), this program is about climate change, science fiction, and science fiction about climate change, but it is not about the illusion that climate change is itself science fiction.  This is a show that should be heard from beginning to... Read more

Imagining the (climate) future

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
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Linking the pieces of this program about climate change are several songs by Ella Fitzgerald, together with commentary by host Frann Michel on the basic issues and concepts of climate change, how climate change and other global disasters have played in works of ... Read more

Surviving on a Volatile Earth

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
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 Can technology address the problems posed by climate change?   Environmental journalist Dianne Dumanoski is the author of The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth, and here she talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick ... Read more

Movie Moles: "Inception"

Airs at: Mon, 07/19/2010 at 12:00am
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Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is about a plot to remake a mind -- but do the film makers give viewers' minds enough to go on?  Our Movie Moles Denise Morris and Wendy Webb ask whether this film is up to its appointed task.    Read more

Autonomism Explained

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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When Marx was writing his grim analyses of Capitalism 150 years ago, workers did not have much if any autonomy. The labor movement gave workers the leverage to determine some of the terms of their livelihood, and since the 1970s progressive management theory has given mo... Read more

Movie Moles: Winter's Bone

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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Our Movie Moles, Jan Haaken and Brooke Jacobson, talk about hillbilly stereotypes, meth culture and gender in a very recent coming-of-age crime-thriller, "Winter's Bone," Directed by Deborah Granik. Read more

Heart of Dryness

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
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Bill interviews James Workman - author of "Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushman Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanant Drought" - about fostering community through water-conservation, but specifically as he learned it studying African aborigines. Read more

Developments in the Gulf

Airs at: Mon, 07/12/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken interviews environmental engineer and former guest, Richard Heymann, about the changing situation in the gulf and what makes this spill and how it's being handled different from others. Read more